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Topic: Wolf Helm of Russ (Read 152 times)

The other day I decided to dust off this backburner project and get it finished. It's nearing completion, so I figured I'd go ahead and share my progress so far.

I started with a reject cast from my old beaky space marine helmet mold. I split it in half lengthwise to add a bit of width, ground off the ears and camera housing, and filled in all the holes. This gave me a starting shape that looked like so:

Then I covered it with a bunch of expanding foam:

Then I whittled the foam down to the rough shape I needed:

That shape was covered with oil-based clay and the final shape started to become clear:

Sculpting was mostly done late at night when I was home from the shop, but it worked out pretty well:

So a little over a year ago, it looked like so:

Then, tired of moving the sculpt around in the workshop, I dusted it off, mounted it to some cardboard, and filled the overhangs with silicone:

Then I went ahead and mounted it upright and built up a drip wall:

And built up the rest of the silicone rubber mold jacket:

Once that had cured, I built a two-part fiberglass mothermold:

Then, after it was all solid, I pried the mothermold off, trimmed up the edges, made a relief cut up the backside of the rubber jacket, and demolded the sculpt:

After a tiny bit of clean-up, I was able to rotocast a good, solid copy of the helmet:

After a quick trim, I couldn't help but try it on and compare it to the sculpt: